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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - ml_woy - 05-16-2013

Today I created a mobile table from some scrap material I had in the shop. I had purchased a vice in September weighing 100#, a rotary table in May weighing 100# and I suddenly realized I need a way of moving these things about without a lot of heavy lifting. Here is a picture of the table I created, I also added a location for storage of my "C" clamps.

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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 05-16-2013

(05-16-2013, 12:47 PM)DaveH Wrote: Neat little puller
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DaveH

thanks had to have it to remove a wheel off of a clock, I ordered a tool to remove the roller table from the balance wheel in the pocket watches I been messing with but it wouldn't fit my staking tool so I had to make a frame to hold it in line with the punch.

heres a shot of it not pretty but it works and now more then I'll use it I think it will be fine.


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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 05-16-2013

I finished up the blocks this evening for my milling vise work stop. Now on to the clamps.

Ed

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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - TomG - 05-19-2013

Wow, you guys had more fun, I just did some repair work. Nice job!

I finally got around to diagnosing the vibration and noise in the head on my mill. I thought it might have been a bearing in the motor or intermediate shaft, but as it turns out, it was just a worn bushing in one of the sheaves on the variable speed pulley, which made the pulley wobble. Luckily I caught it early and there was no damage to the sheave itself or the motor shaft. I ran out of time today, but I'll make a couple new bushings tomorrow, press them in and she should be good for another 30 years.

At least I got to try out my new bench.

Tom

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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - stevec - 05-19-2013

I figure I need to do the same sorta maintenance to my mill but being without it and probably needing it for the repairs scares me.
Glad you've got everything under control.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - TomG - 05-19-2013

Being without a mill is definitely a pain. I also need to make a new key for the pulley, but with the mill down I'll need to use the old one long enough to make a new one and then swap them out, unless I make one by hand. Not sure which would be the bigger pain.

Tom

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Tony Wells - 05-19-2013

That's what I don't like about the Reeves drive units. Once they get some wear on them, they sound awful, and if you don't get on it pretty quick, they'll self destruct.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 05-20-2013

yesterday I watched Tornado's all day, the day before that I made the blue spring you see in the photo, for a clock movement that I acquired the other day.
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its made from a short piece of band saw blade that I softened and then shaped and then heat treated it and boiled in bluing salts, its a little bit on the stiff side for what it has to do but it will work.
then last night while looking at the clock movement I noticed these cracks in the main spirng for the Chime side of the movement, the movement even thou its probably over a hundred years old has too much wrong with it to spend the money for a new mainspring, so its being delegated to the shelf as a learning tool so hopefully I won't mess up a good one when one shows up on the front porch.

Cracks in spring
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - the artfull-codger - 05-21-2013

(03-10-2013, 09:07 PM)TomG Wrote:
(03-09-2013, 08:22 PM)TomG Wrote: I have a large quantity of small brass pins to make. They are 1/8" diameter, 3/8" long and have a 6ยบ on them and a radius on the small end. Since I find making more than one or two of anything mind numbing, I decided that making a form tool would be worth my time. I came up with a simple design using two identical pieces of hardened O1 with the form cut in them and a half of a 3/16" cylindrical bore to align the two halves of the tool and mount them on a 3/16" dowel. The tool works like a pencil sharpener. It is held in the tailstock of the lathe and fed into a piece of 1/8" brass to cut the taper and radius, once the taper and radii are formed, the part is cut off with a parting tool. I figure that using the parting tool as a stop for the stock, and my fancy form tool, I should be able to crank out a finished pin every 15 seconds or so. I can't wait.

Tom

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Here's a little video of the form tool in action.



gr8 idea Tom, definitely one to put in the back of my book for poss future use!!
Graham.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - TomG - 05-21-2013

Thanks Graham. It's definitely a tool with a specific application, but I'm sure the concept could be applied to other parts, perhaps something with a stepped shaft. I haven't beat on it too much yet, but it seems to self center quite nicely and produces a good finish.

Tom